George W Bush: Mom showed me foetus in jar

Former US president George W Bush has revealed how his mother showed him a foetus she had miscarried when he was a teenager.

George ‘Dubya’ Bush negotiates his umbrella in the wind with little success.

He was driving Barbara to hospital when she produced the foetus in a jar.

‘There was a human life, a little brother or sister,’ Mr Bush said. ‘There’s no question that affected me, a philos­ophy that we should respect life.’

Mr Bush was asked about the incident after writing in his book, Decision Points: ‘I never expected to see the

remains of the foetus, which she had saved in the jar to bring to the hospital.’

He told interviewer Matt Lauer on US TV last night: ‘The purpose of the story wasn’t to try to show the evolution of a pro-life point of view. It was really to show how my mom and I developed a relationship.’

It is thought that Mrs Bush, now aged 85, lost her baby in the mid-1960s. She had six children, with Dubya, now 64, the eldest son.

Mr Bush admitted he was ‘deeply disappointed’ that terror leader Osama bin Laden had not been captured or killed.

He insisted he had no regrets about

using the torture technique of waterboarding to interrogate al-Qaeda suspects. ‘We gained valuable information to protect the country and it was the right thing to do, as far as I was concerned.’